October 17, 2013

"You can Control POLES?!"

...and yet Poland has not been enslaved because Pyrrha is a good person...

...or perhaps Ruby has erred.

Pretty decent 5 minutes. We find out a couple of things...
Jaune got his untenable position somewhat mitigated...due to a fortuitous bear attack. It was further
established that he has a great deal of potential...which he doesn't quite grok. However he again demonstrated considerable bravery and integrity.

Additionally, both Pyrrha and Ruby
were explicitly stated to have superpowers. Rub'ys flash-step is apparently not a skill as such but a power akin to Weiss's runes. Pyrrha reveals hers to be "polarity".

I
liked how Pyrrha used her magnetism ability with great deft and subtly
giving Jaune that 18 inch shift that kept him from being decapitated
before he got in his death-blow.

I thought that was handled pretty nicely, Jaune does not lack
strength or guts but his defense is an established weakness, OTOH, he
really demonstrated that despite his problems he's both principled and
brave. The bit at the end was cute with the expression on Pyrrha's face
being sublime.

It really does seem to be a blending of American and Japanese tropes.
Explicitly stating that Ruby's speed is a power of some sort makes this
something of a superhero show (with strong anime and sentai overtones) A
very good case could also be made for the Chinese super-kung-fu category too.

Also: There was an ad for the RWBY DVD at the end. We're only 2 episodes away from the end of this season which gives the writers about 20 minutes to turn everything to worms.